Even a snail can start a story.

Start with what happened this morning, or an adventure they invented at lunch. Choose who comes along and how the pictures look.

The story we started with

Mateo found a snail on the back steps this morning and named it Gus. He carried it round the whole garden to show it the tomatoes, the hose and the swing. Then he put it back exactly where he found it, so its mum would know where it was.

Mateo Shows Gus the Garden · Page 2

Read it together.

Here’s Kit, trying to tell Lolo about the ice-cream truck.

“Say again, Sparrow,” said Lolo. “Spell it. Radio letters only. Over.”

Kit didn’t know radio letters.
She knew ice cream.

“I-C-E! Icy! Cold! Eat-it-NOW!”

Read the whole story

“Again, please.”

When I reached the last page, my niece asked to hear it again. So we did.

I started by making books for her. Now you can turn your family’s own stories into picture books to read together, as many times as your child asks.

Justin